Amazon ECS Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Amazon ECS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 144 173
Rank change year-on-year -14 +29 +51
Contract jobs citing Amazon ECS 52 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.10% 0.53% 0.19%
As % of the Cloud Services category 2.90% 1.59% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 13 6
10th Percentile £394 £378 £479
25th Percentile £476 £400 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £725 £550
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% +31.82% -
75th Percentile £586 £750 £642
90th Percentile £650 - £659
England median daily rate £530 £725 £538
% change year-on-year -26.90% +34.88% -10.42%

All Cloud Skills
North of England

Amazon ECS falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 1,795 1,192 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 37.89% 33.31% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,303 779 1,193
10th Percentile £214 £263 £257
25th Percentile £363 £381 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -4.75%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £656 £650
England median daily rate £500 £535 £525
% change year-on-year -6.54% +1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 23 58
10th Percentile £15.00 £18.05 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.78 £22.61 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.87 £31.00 £28.31
Median % change year-on-year +35.07% +9.52% +17.42%
75th Percentile £58.81 £63.88 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.73 £94.81 £55.00
England median hourly rate £26.86 £29.00 £24.31
% change year-on-year -7.40% +19.32% +8.02%

Amazon ECS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Amazon ECS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Amazon ECS job vacancy trend in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon ECS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Amazon ECS

Amazon ECS
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Amazon ECS in the North of England over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Amazon ECS in the North of England

Amazon ECS
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Amazon ECS within the North of England region over the 6 months to 20 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -5 28 £550 +37.50% 5
Yorkshire -34 22 £500 -31.03% 15
North East -8 2 £644 -14.17% 2
Amazon ECS
England

Amazon ECS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (11.54%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (3.85%) Confluence
3 1 (1.92%) Apache
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 51 (98.08%) AWS
2 45 (86.54%) Serverless
3 43 (82.69%) AWS Lambda
4 21 (40.38%) GitHub
5 19 (36.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 16 (30.77%) Amazon EKS
6 16 (30.77%) Amazon S3
7 15 (28.85%) Amazon EC2
8 14 (26.92%) Amazon EventBridge
9 13 (25.00%) Amazon SQS
9 13 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (23.08%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (19.23%) AWS Fargate
12 9 (17.31%) Apigee
12 9 (17.31%) AWS Step Functions
12 9 (17.31%) Route 53
13 8 (15.38%) Datadog
14 7 (13.46%) GCP
15 6 (11.54%) Amazon SageMaker
15 6 (11.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.62%) Firewall
2 3 (5.77%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (46.15%) DynamoDB
2 13 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 13 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 13 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
3 11 (21.15%) Amazon Aurora
4 9 (17.31%) Relational Database
5 6 (11.54%) Redis
6 5 (9.62%) Big Data
6 5 (9.62%) BigQuery
6 5 (9.62%) MongoDB
6 5 (9.62%) MySQL
6 5 (9.62%) RDBMS
7 4 (7.69%) DocumentDB
8 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 23 (44.23%) Jenkins
2 12 (23.08%) Git
2 12 (23.08%) GitLab
3 8 (15.38%) SonarQube
4 7 (13.46%) JIRA
4 7 (13.46%) Maven
5 5 (9.62%) Gradle
5 5 (9.62%) MLflow
5 5 (9.62%) SonarLint
6 3 (5.77%) Cypress.io
7 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.85%) Selenium
7 2 (3.85%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 17 (32.69%) Public Sector
2 14 (26.92%) Social Skills
3 6 (11.54%) Finance
4 3 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) AWS Engineer
2 12 (23.08%) Software Engineer
3 8 (15.38%) Architect
4 7 (13.46%) Developer
4 7 (13.46%) Java Architect
4 7 (13.46%) Java Technical Architect
4 7 (13.46%) Lead
4 7 (13.46%) Technical Architect
5 6 (11.54%) Senior
6 5 (9.62%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Data Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) AWS Software Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 4 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) AWS Data Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.69%) Node.js
2 15 (28.85%) RESTful
3 10 (19.23%) React
4 9 (17.31%) Spring Boot
5 8 (15.38%) JWT
5 8 (15.38%) REST
6 7 (13.46%) Flask
7 6 (11.54%) Kafka
8 5 (9.62%) .NET
8 5 (9.62%) Dropwizard
8 5 (9.62%) GraphQL
8 5 (9.62%) HTML
8 5 (9.62%) J2EE
8 5 (9.62%) Micronaut
8 5 (9.62%) PySpark
8 5 (9.62%) Spring
9 4 (7.69%) Celery
10 3 (5.77%) AngularJS
10 3 (5.77%) Jest
10 3 (5.77%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) Cloud Native
2 6 (11.54%) Product Ownership
3 5 (9.62%) NHS
3 5 (9.62%) N-Tier
4 2 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.92%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.46%) Linux
2 3 (5.77%) Amazon Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 26 (50.00%) Agile
2 26 (50.00%) DevOps
2 26 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 20 (38.46%) Microservices
4 19 (36.54%) Containerisation
5 15 (28.85%) Software Engineering
6 14 (26.92%) AI
7 13 (25.00%) Event-Driven
7 13 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
7 13 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (23.08%) Mentoring
9 10 (19.23%) Event-Driven Architecture
9 10 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (19.23%) TDD
10 9 (17.31%) Data Pipeline
11 8 (15.38%) Clean Code
11 8 (15.38%) Design Patterns
12 7 (13.46%) API Design
12 7 (13.46%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 35 (67.31%) Python
2 15 (28.85%) TypeScript
3 14 (26.92%) Java
4 7 (13.46%) JavaScript
4 7 (13.46%) SQL
5 4 (7.69%) Bash
5 4 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.69%) Ruby
6 3 (5.77%) Go
7 2 (3.85%) Perl
8 1 (1.92%) C
8 1 (1.92%) C#
8 1 (1.92%) Groovy
8 1 (1.92%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 9 (17.31%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.54%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 2 (3.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.77%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.92%) HL7
3 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 38 (73.08%) Docker
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 38 (73.08%) Terraform
2 27 (51.92%) Kubernetes
3 4 (7.69%) Prometheus
4 3 (5.77%) Grafana
4 3 (5.77%) Packer
5 2 (3.85%) Ansible
5 2 (3.85%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 6 (11.54%) Gigya
2 4 (7.69%) Splunk
3 3 (5.77%) Ping Identity
4 2 (3.85%) Oracle
5 1 (1.92%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.92%) Brio
5 1 (1.92%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.92%) Pega
5 1 (1.92%) UiPath